lost and found

English

Alternative forms

• lost-and-found

Pronunciation

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Noun

lost and found (countable and uncountable, plural lost and founds)

1. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners.

   Well, if you can't find your glasses, then go to lost and found and ask if anyone turned them in.

Synonyms

• (UK): lost property
• (Canada): lost articles

Translations

department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners

• Catalan: oficina d'objectes trobats f, oficina d'objectes perduts f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失物招領／失物招领 (shīwù zhāolǐng)

• Dutch: gevonden voorwerpen pl
• Estonian: leiubüroo
• Finnish: löytötavaratoimisto (fi)
• French: objets trouvés (fr) m pl
• Galician: obxectos perdidos m pl
• German: Fundbüro (de) n
• Greek: γραφείο απολεσθέντων αντικειμένων n (grafeío apolesthénton antikeiménon), απολεσθέντα n pl (apolesthénta) (colloquial)
• Irish: oifig na n-earraí caillte f
• Italian: oggetti smarriti m pl
• Japanese: 遺失物取扱所 (いしつぶつとりあつかいじょ, ishitsubutsu toriatsukaijo), 落とし物センター (おとしものセンター, otoshimono sentā)
• Persian: قسمت اشیای گمشده (fa)
• Polish: biuro rzeczy znalezionych (pl)
• Portuguese: perdido e achado m, perdidos e achados m pl
• Russian: бюро́ нахо́док (ru) n (bjuró naxódok)
• Spanish: objetos perdidos y encontrados m pl
• Swedish: upphittat
• Turkish: kayıp eşya bürosu
• Ukrainian: б'юро знахідок n (bʺjuro znaxidok)
• Welsh: swyddfa eiddo coll/colledig